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title: In it he told his debtor that he cancelled his debt and asked him to… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: In it he told his debtor that he cancelled his debt and asked him to take his dog back free of incumbrances. Who acts: bania. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 19

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In it he told his debtor that he cancelled his debt and asked him to take his dog back free of incumbrances.

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**Who acts:** bania · **What happens:** tell, cancel, ask, take back · **To what, where:** debtor, debt, bania, dog · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bania), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:14:19
# text = In it he told his debtor that he cancelled his debt and asked him to take his dog back free of incumbrances.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	debtor	debtor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cancelled	cancel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	csubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	incumbrances	incumbrance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | bania |  | bania's debtor |  |  | in dog | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent debtor=Recipient |
| 2 | **cancel** | past | bania | bania's debt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | bania *not said here* |  | bania |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **take back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | bania *not said here* |  | bania's dog |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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